The First

Author : Ulinka Rublack,Maria Hayward,Jenny Tiramani
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474249904

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The First Book of Fashion by Ulinka Rublack,Maria Hayward,Jenny Tiramani Pdf

This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the sixteenth century: one has to dress to impress, and dress to impress they did. The Schwarzes recorded their sartorial triumphs as well as failures in life in a series of portraits by illuminists over 60 years, which have been comprehensively reproduced in full color for the first time. These exquisite illustrations are accompanied by the Schwarzes' fashion-focussed yet at times deeply personal captions, which render the pair the world's first fashion bloggers and pioneers of everyday portraiture. The First Book of Fashion demonstrates how dress – seemingly both ephemeral and trivial – is a potent tool in the right hands. Beyond this, it colorfully recaptures the experience of Renaissance life and reveals the importance of clothing to the aesthetics and every day culture of the period. Historians Ulinka Rublack's and Maria Hayward's insightful commentaries create an unparalleled portrait of sixteenth-century dress that is both strikingly modern and thorough in its description of a true Renaissance fashionista's wardrobe. This first English translation also includes a bespoke pattern by TONY award-winning costume designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani, from which readers can recreate one of Schwarz's most elaborate and politically significant outfits.

Author : Tamora Pierce
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781481439589

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Alanna by Tamora Pierce Pdf

Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.

Author : Jesse Zuba
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691164472

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The First Book by Jesse Zuba Pdf

"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but also had come to define it. Surveying American poetry over the past hundred years, The First Book explores the emergence of the poetic debut as a unique literary production with its own tradition, conventions, and dynamic role in the literary market. Through new readings of poets ranging from Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore to John Ashbery and Louise Glück, Jesse Zuba illuminates the importance of the first book in twentieth-century American literary culture, which involved complex struggles for legitimacy on the part of poets, critics, and publishers alike. Zuba investigates poets' diverse responses to the question of how to launch a career in an increasingly professionalized literary scene that threatened the authenticity of the poetic calling. He shows how modernist debuts evoke markedly idiosyncratic paths, while postwar first books evoke trajectories that balance professional imperatives with traditional literary ideals. Debut titles ranging from Simpson's The Arrivistes to Ken Chen's Juvenilia stress the strikingly pervasive theme of beginning, accommodating a new demand for career development even as it distances the poets from that demand. Combining literary analysis with cultural history, The First Book will interest scholars and students of twentieth-century literature as well as readers and writers of poetry.

Author : Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316401043

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You Were the First by Patricia MacLachlan Pdf

You will always be the first... A touching tribute to baby's early milestones -- those unforgettable moments that will always be cherished. From first smiles to first cuddles and even to that first kiss, here's a loving ode to every child's -- and parent's -- momentous "firsts."

Author : Murray Clamen
Publisher : Canadian History and Environme
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1773851071

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The First Century of the International Joint Commission by Murray Clamen Pdf

The International Joint Commission oversees and protects the shared waters of Canada and the United States. Created by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, it is one of the world's oldest international environmental bodies. A pioneering piece of transborder water governance, the IJC has been integral to the modern Canada-United States relationship. This is the definitive history of the International Joint Commission. Separating myth from reality and uncovering the historical evolution of the IJC from its inception to its present, this collection features an impressive interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners. Examining the many aspects of border waters from east to west The First Century of the International Joint Commission traces the three major periods of the IJC, detailing its early focus on water flow, its middle period of growth and increasing politicization, and its modern emphasis on ecosystems. Informative, detailed, and fascinating, The First Century of the International Joint Commission is essential reading for academics, contemporary policy makers, governments, and all those interested in sustainability, climate change, pollution, and resiliency along the Canada-US Border.

Author : Laura Wright
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780143194873

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The First Mess Cookbook by Laura Wright Pdf

National Winner for Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2017 - Blogger category Winner of the 2018 Taste Canada Awards - Health and Special Diet Cookbooks, Silver The creator of the popular Saveur award-winning blog The First Mess shares over 125 seasonal, plant-based, and beautifully prepared healthy recipes in her eagerly anticipated debut cookbook Home cooks head to The First Mess blog for Laura Wright's simple-to-prepare, seasonal vegan recipes, but stay for her beautiful photographs and enchanting storytelling. In her debut cookbook, Laura presents a visually stunning collection of heirloom-quality recipes highlighting the beauty of the seasons. Her 125-plus produce-forward recipes showcase the best each season has to offer, and as a whole, demonstrate that plant-based wellness is both accessible and delicious. Wright grew up working at her family's local food market and vegetable patch in the Niagara region of southern Ontario, where fully stocked root cellars in the winter and armfuls of fresh produce in the spring and summer were the norm. After attending culinary school and working in one of Canada's original farm-to-table restaurants, she launched The First Mess blog at the urging of her friends in order to share the delicious, no-fuss, healthy, seasonal meals she grew up eating, and quickly attracted a large international following. The First Mess Cookbook is filled with more of the exquisitely prepared plant-based recipes and lush photography that fans of the blog have come to expect. With recipes for every meal of the day, like Fluffiest Multigrain Pancakes, Meyer Lemon Romanesco Glow Salad, and Eggplant "Bolognese" Pasta, and desserts like Earl Grey Tiramisu, The First Mess Cookbook is a must-have for any home cook looking to prepare nourishing plant-based meals with the best the seasons have to offer.

Author : Jon Andoni Dunabeitia,Nicola Molinaro
Publisher : Frontiers E-books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9782889192601

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At the doors of lexical access: The importance of the first 250 milliseconds in reading by Jon Andoni Dunabeitia,Nicola Molinaro Pdf

Correct word identification and processing is a prerequisite for accurate reading, and decades of psycholinguistic and neuroscientific research have shown that the magical moments of visual word recognition are short-lived and markedly fast. The time window in which a given letter string passes from being a mere sequence of printed curves and strokes to acquiring the word status takes around one third of a second. In a few hundred milliseconds, a skilled reader recognizes an isolated word and carries out a number of underlying processes, such as the encoding of letter position and letter identity, and lexico-semantic information retrieval. However, the precise manner (and order) in which these processes occur (or co-occur) is a matter of contention subject to empirical research. There’s no agreement regarding the precise timing of some of the essential processes that guide visual word processing, such as precise letter identification, letter position assignment or sub-word unit processing (bigrams, trigrams, syllables, morphemes), among others. Which is the sequence of processes that lead to lexical access? How do these and other processes interact with each other during the early moments of word processing? Do these processes occur in a serial fashion or do they take place in parallel? Are these processes subject to mutual interaction principles? Is feedback allowed for within the earliest stages of word identification? And ultimately, when does the reader’s brain effectively identify a given word? A vast number of questions remain open, and this Research Topic will cover some of them, giving the readership the opportunity to understand how the scientific community faces the problem of modeling the early stages of word identification according to the latest neuroscientific findings. The present Research Topic aimed to combine recent experimental evidence on early word processing from different techniques together with comprehensive reviews of the current work directions, in order to create a landmark forum in which experts in the field defined the state of the art and future directions. We were willing to receive submissions of empirical as well as theoretical and review articles based on different computational and neuroscience-oriented methodologies. We especially encouraged researchers primarily using electrophysiological or magnetoencephalographic techniques as well as eye-tracking to participate, given that these techniques provide us with the opportunity to uncover the mysteries of lexical access allowing for a fine-grained time-course analysis. The main focus of interest concerned the processes that are held within the initial 250-300 milliseconds after word presentation, covering areas that link basic visuo-attentional systems with linguistic mechanisms.

Author : Paul Mendelson
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472111395

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The First Rule Of Survival by Paul Mendelson Pdf

Seven years ago in Cape Town three young white South African schoolboys were abducted in broad daylight on three consecutive days. They were never heard of again. Now, a new case for the unpredictable Colonel Vaughn de Vries casts a light on the original enquiry; for him, a personal failure which has haunted him for those seven years and has cost him his marriage and peace of mind. A former British government agent, friend to De Vries, provides intelligence on this new case, but is any of it admissible? Struggling in a mire of departmental and racial rivalry, De Vries seeks the whole truth and unravels a complex history of abuse, deception and murder. Challenging friends, colleagues and enemies, De Vries comes to realise he doesn't know who is which. Set against the background of Cape Town and the endless, rolling South African veld, this chilling thriller reveals layer after layer of abuse - physical, political and psychological. Shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association Gold Dagger 2014 (Crime Novel of the Year) Praise for Paul Mendelson: 'An excellent, uncompromising crime thriller made even better by its setting ... the story is two journeys in one, and I'm glad I took both' Lee Child 'A jaw-droppingly brilliant crime thriller. Imagine The Killing moved to Cape Town and into the landscape of the hot and dusty African veld' Philip Glenister 'The First Rule of Survival is an incredibly atmospheric, complex and dazzling debut from a thrilling and authentic new voice in crime fiction' Brian McGilloway 'An impressive debut' The Times

Author : Gordon L. Heath
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630872908

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Canadian Churches and the First World War by Gordon L. Heath Pdf

Most accounts of Canada and the First World War either ignore or merely mention in passing the churches' experience. Such neglect does not do justice to the remarkable influence of the wartime churches nor to the religious identity of the young Dominion. The churches' support for the war was often wholehearted, but just as often nuanced and critical, shaped by either the classic just war paradigm or pacifism's outright rejection of violence. The war heightened issues of Canadianization, attitudes to violence, and ministry to the bereaved and the disillusioned. It also exacerbated ethnic tensions within and between denominations, and challenged notions of national and imperial identity. The authors of this volume provide a detailed summary of various Christian traditions and the war, both synthesizing and furthering previous research. In addition to examining the experience of Roman Catholics (English and French speaking), Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans, Mennonites, and Quakers, there are chapters on precedents formed during the South African War, the work of military chaplains, and the roles of church women on the home front.

Author : William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108066136

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The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty by William Matthew Flinders Petrie Pdf

This fully illustrated excavation report on the early Egyptian royal tombs at Abydos was first published in 1900.

Author : Ian Sumner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782002543

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The First Battle of the Marne 1914 by Ian Sumner Pdf

In 1914 the Germans launched an offensive that swept through Belgium and into France, threatening to crush French resistance in one fell swoop. However, through careful maneuvering and stubborn resistance, the French Army, aided by the BEF, blunted the assault, winning an important strategic victory that kept France in the war. This victory ensured that Germany would have to fight a two-front war, and the Western Front descended into the stalemate of trench warfare. One of the most important battles in the First World War, the First Battle of the Marne would be the last battle of maneuver to be seen on the Western Front for several years to come.

Author : Duong Anh Duc,Thuy Thi Bich Dong,Tu-bao Ho,Dinh Thuc Nguyen
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814476836

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Ictacs 2006 - Proceedings Of The First International Conference On Theories And Applications Of Computer Science 2006 by Duong Anh Duc,Thuy Thi Bich Dong,Tu-bao Ho,Dinh Thuc Nguyen Pdf

This volume brings together many contributions from leading research scientists, engineers and practitioners in computer science. Selected by program committee members, the topics describe innovative research and new technologies in the following areas of interest: image processing, computer vision and pattern recognition; computational linguistics and natural language processing; artificial intelligence, machine learning and algorithms; software engineering; computer networks and security; and bioinformatics.

Author : Rev. David Bauscher
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781329455412

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Meditations and Inspirations from the First Christian Bible (the Aramaic Peshitta) Volume 2 by Rev. David Bauscher Pdf

This is a Christian devotional book of my personal meditations and inspirations of the Spirit of Holiness from the text of the Gospels and epistles of the original Aramaic New Testament and also from the Aramaic Psalms and Proverbs called the Peshitta Bible, and translated by the author in an edition called The Original Aramaic New Testament in Plain English with Psalms and Proverbs, which translation is abundantly quoted throughout this book. The author's many print book titles and free eBooks and articles are available at aramaicnt.com. 302 pages paperback

Author : Samuel Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z226020600

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The Rainbow in the North: a Short Account of the First Establishment of Christianity in Rupert's Land by the Church Missionary Soc by Samuel Tucker Pdf

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 0880015527

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First Book Of Jazz by Langston Hughes Pdf

An introduction to jazz which focuses on its historical development.